I’m going to start writing again.
Here is the premise and I hope you don’t swipe it.
It is a coming of age story and these days we all do that somewhere around 30. The old story of the 18 year old discovering himself seems sort of hackney.
So it is loosely based on my own life, because my dad asked me to scatter his ashes in New Mexico. He ran away there when he was a teen and worked as a ranch hand. The story begins with the dad’s passing. The son is now obligated to fill his promise and sees a trip out west as a huge inconvenience. He’s got his own assorted BS at home to tend with and is sort of hitting rock bottom fighting depression. So his decides he’s going to wrap up as many loose ends as he can at home and then hop in the car for one last road trip with his pops. He’s going to sprinkle his dad’s ashes off one of the many humungous suspension bridges in the desert. Then, he’s going to jump the railing and end his own misery.
On the way he starts to gain understanding about his father and his own life. While it might sound like a lifetime movie, I think my pessimistic, but hopeful view of the world could add a new element to the story. I promise it will also have some good dialogue. Maybe I’ll even go the screen play route, because I have some great music ideas. Check out my myspace page for “The Funeral” by Band of Horses. I think it would be the choice song to close the film with.
Here is the premise and I hope you don’t swipe it.
It is a coming of age story and these days we all do that somewhere around 30. The old story of the 18 year old discovering himself seems sort of hackney.
So it is loosely based on my own life, because my dad asked me to scatter his ashes in New Mexico. He ran away there when he was a teen and worked as a ranch hand. The story begins with the dad’s passing. The son is now obligated to fill his promise and sees a trip out west as a huge inconvenience. He’s got his own assorted BS at home to tend with and is sort of hitting rock bottom fighting depression. So his decides he’s going to wrap up as many loose ends as he can at home and then hop in the car for one last road trip with his pops. He’s going to sprinkle his dad’s ashes off one of the many humungous suspension bridges in the desert. Then, he’s going to jump the railing and end his own misery.
On the way he starts to gain understanding about his father and his own life. While it might sound like a lifetime movie, I think my pessimistic, but hopeful view of the world could add a new element to the story. I promise it will also have some good dialogue. Maybe I’ll even go the screen play route, because I have some great music ideas. Check out my myspace page for “The Funeral” by Band of Horses. I think it would be the choice song to close the film with.
2 Comments:
It sounds good... keep us updated.
Don't know how to tell you this DJ J, but your idea...welll it's kind of already a shitty movie staring Kirsten Dunst. It's called Elizabethtown.
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